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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Confession Happiness Hate Quite Secret Simplicity Try Understand
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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